Sketchy

A couple sketches and things.

For Jack Belli.

Inspired by Jeffery Jones.

Shred!

Acrylic on masonite

Recent : Featherhead

For the lovely Miss Amy Covert.

Acrylic on canvas back

Glued

There are so many things that I "should" be doing today,

but I just cannot seem to avert my eyes.

The style, timeless.
The detail, jaw-dropping.
And the shoes...

"Shorpy" Higgenbotham and friends,
Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Co., Jefferson Cty., Alabama: 1910

Clerks, U.S. Patent Office: 1925

Lieutenant Stephen Bonsal Jr.: 1917

Shad fishing on the Potomac: 1920

Slugger: 1939

War gardeners: 1918

Midgets for Coolidge: 1925

Union man: 1938

The Shoe Line: 1943

A girl's best friend: 1943

Lady, Incognito: 1890

People's Drug Store, Washington D.C.: 1921

THE 100-YEAR-OLD PHOTO BLOG

Los Angleez

Some friends and I recently took

a day trip up to El Pueblo de Nuestra

Senora la Reina de los Angeles del Rio de Porciuncula

...more commonly known as L.A.

Omelette Parlor, SM

O.P. decor

window shopping

getty gardens

Gilded everything

city view

cloudy but clear

art on art

inspiring

my new favorite

35 mm

Time Lapse via Bogus Media

I recently unearthed a little clip, masterfully put together by none other than the Morg Man.

Paints for Friends

For the lovely Miss Mary Froemke... a birthday gift.

Acrylic on canvas

...and for a dear childhood friend.

Acrylic on canvas

I've been really into tweed lately...

....so I made these.

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Acrylic on wood

Christmas gifts

Here's a little thing I made for a very good friend,

Ms. Shannon Len, who resides on the Central Coast of California

and hand-crafts some of the most exquisite and unique

jewelry I have yet come across.

Her work is notably inspiring.

Acrylic on wood

and here is one for Mr. Morgan Maassen,

whose work I'm sure you are all quite familiar with...

Acrylic on wood

...such a failure in comparison to the actual photo it was inspired by.

(Morgan, please stop setting the bar quite so high;

it makes it impossible for the rest of us to reach.)

*Thanks to Mr. Jack Belli and his Ford Econo-line van project for providing the wood-scrap canvases for the above finger-paints.

**also: JACK, YOU RUN A BLOG!???? WHY DIDN'T I KNOW THISSSSSSSS??

leaving my home...

...for now, at least.